| Various Artists / A Tribute To Repo Man |
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| Album: | A Tribute To Repo Man | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Oct 2012 | |
| Label: | American Laundromat Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-01-19 | Pull Date: | 2013-03-24 |
| Week Ending: | Mar 3 | Feb 24 | Feb 10 | Jan 27 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 09, 2023: | Down in the Basement El Clavo Y La Cruz | 4. | Feb 22, 2013: | Brownian Motion Institutionalized | |
| 2. | Dec 18, 2017: | Everything A to Z week 114 Bad Man | 5. | Feb 18, 2013: | "no way to say" 0003 new edit aired 2020-05-11 1300hrs Hombre Secreto | |
| 3. | Mar 02, 2013: | Music Casserole Institutionalized | 6. | Feb 09, 2013: | Time and Mom Hombre Secreto |
| Album Review |
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| Grumpy Sean Reviewed 2013-01-14 | ||
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A noble idea -- a song-for-song cover of the original LA-fueled soundtrack to Alex Cox's "Repo Man" -- but too many FCCs and misfires for our purposes. I have fond memories of the movie (Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton) and a mall-purchased cassette from high school, but this compilation just fires wide of the mark in most cases. Do yourself a favor and check out the original while sampling this. FCCs: 1, 6, 8, 10 1. Those Darlins, "Repo Man" (orig. Iggy Pop) - FCC (pissing, fucked, fucking), med, metallic (but not metal) rock, female vox aping Penelope Houston mimicking Iggy 2. Polar Bear Club, "TV Party" (orig. Black Flag) - up, super faithful cover, may as well be Black Flag except for the male lead singer (def. not Rollins), false end 3. * Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra, "Institutionalized" (orig. Suicidal Tendencies) - varies btw. med- and up, Amanda does a great job with the Mike Muir protagonist role, horns give it a jazzy feel in the verses, spoken quick end 4. New York Rivals, "Coup D'Etat" (orig. Circle Jerks) - med(+), way overproduced yowling male vox over 80s cock rock, kind of a trainwreck (and not in a good way) 5. Black Francis & Spanish for Hitchhiking, "El Clavo y La Cruz" (orig. The Plugz) - med-, low-key, Black Francis (ex-Pixies) retains the original Spanish 6. The Tellers, "Pablo Picasso" (orig. Jonathan Richman, performed by Burning Sensations) - FCC ("asshole" x 10? 20?), med, really not worth your time (unlike JoJo's original) 7. Mike Watt & The Secondmen, "Let's Have a War" (orig. Fear) - possibly offensive ("let's give guns to the queers"), med, proto-grindcore with a groove chorus and Hammond organ(?!) 8. The Suicide Dolls, "When the Shit Hits the Fan" (orig. Circle Jerks) - FCC (duh - song title = chorus), med(-), flaccid rock that sometimes works 9. Matthew Sweet, "Hombre Secreto" (orig. Johnny Rivers, performed by The Plugz) - med, double cover (of Johnny Rivers' "Secret Agent Man"), Sweet's vox sound phonetically rendered (instead of actually knowing Spanish) 10. Moses Coltrane, "Bad Man " (orig. Juicy Bananas) - FCC (shit x 2, bullshit, offensive commentary on women, etc.), dn -, modelled on an old school spoken R&B jam 11. * Weekend, "Reel Ten" (orig. The Plugz) - dn, instrumental, the shimmering synth sound of the magic car blasting off into space | ||
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